Data Breaches: Making a Case for Data Security

Outline

• Variables of Interest

• Trends in Data Breaches 2004 - 2018

• Percent of Data Breaches by Sectors

• Sectors and Data Types

• Data and Leak Types

• Breaches in Sectors by Leak Types

Variables of Interest

• Records Stolen

• Leak Methods –> Categorised into 2 Leak Types

• Organisations –> Categorised into 10 Sectors

• Data Sensitivity –> Categorised into 5 Datatypes

Trends in Data Breaches (2004 - 2018)

Trends in Data Breaches

Percent of Data Breaches by Sectors

Web, Government and Financial accounted for around 97 percent of the data breaches from 2004 to 2018

Sectors and Data Types

Data and Leak Types

Roughly half of all data types were breached due to Human Error!

Breaches in Sectors by Leak Types

93% of data breaches within the government sector were due to Human Error \(\underline{that\space could\space have\space been\space prevented!}\)